wo women are shaking up predominantly male-dominated industrial occupations and doing so with flair and excellence. They offer encouragement to other women to make their mark in their chosen career.
TIG welding marvel
Vuyisile Precious Kubheka is considered one of the newest hires at Werner Pumps, where she’s taken over the company’s TIG welding. She says that over the years she has confronted issues with folks not trusting that she shall be ready to weld purely because she’s a girl. “But once they see my work, they imagine in me,” she says, with a smile.
TIG welding is challenging because errors made are very apparent. Kubheka says a skilled welder needs to have the ability to keep away from undercuts and loopholes and create a clear weld. She welds the hydraulic tanks for the high-pressure jetting and vacuuming units that Werner Pumps builds, which can not afford to have even the smallest hole or weakness, which would create safety issues.
Vuyisile Precious Kubheka – Werner Pumps
Kubheka got here to welding by default, after struggling to search out steady work. In 2010, she had an opportunity to pursue welding training, and has been making a living as a welder since 2013. “I’d encourage different girls to consider welding as a profession,” she says. “It’s a ability that individuals need and I truly have been able to help my four youngsters.”
Wading into water reticulation
One of Werner Pumps’ clients, Vaneetha Govender, runs her own firm called Lupini Projects, which focuses on civil and venture engineering. As ร้านซ่อมเครื่องวัดความดันomron -owned company headed by one of many only girls in water reticulation in South Africa, Lupini Projects is making waves.
Its companies include unblocking sewer strains; cleaning dewatering and desludging at pump stations; level control actions and extraction of soil, sediment and overseas matter blocking manholes, gravity traces and bulk traces; pipeline construction, manhole/junction boxes, and formwork; water provide, sewer line, drainage system; earthworks and pipework; and construction of civil works, together with metal works.
Govender is quick to notice that whereas her expertise lie in driving successful enterprise strategies and initiatives, she has relied on enter from people more experienced than herself to navigate the water reticulation trade. “Partnering with Werner has been a proxy to my success. They are well-known in the water therapy trade, being a forerunner for many years. They deliver technological advancement and experience and progressive experience to my business,” she says.
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Her background is a combine of technical experience in credit score and operations, enterprise optimisation and technique implementation in JSE-listed corporations in monetary providers and telecommunications. She has an MBA, an Honours diploma in Business Administration (PGDIP), a level in Business Leadership Management (BML), and an Advanced Diploma in Business Management from the London Business School.
The concept for Lupini Projects got here to her whereas doing her Masters degree. She was learning social development and researching the depletion of worldwide water sources and its direct impact on quality of life and socioeconomic development.
Living near the Vaal River, Govender was aware of extremely publicised stories on sewer pollution in the space. This, coupled with the desire to start her own enterprise, drove her decision to turn out to be a half of the answer within the Vaal.
Lupini Projects was born in 2015. “I have three streams of enterprise that I run within the firm portfolio,” says Govender. “These are in the pharmaceutical, personal safety tools (PPE) and the water management industries.”
The water management industry has several limitations to entry, including excessive capital costs of kit, access to finance for small companies and securing initial contracts, as well as assembly compliance necessities (which may also be costly).
Govender has overcome these challenges by being prepared to “fail fast” and be taught quickly, showcasing her capabilities to secure contracts, and investing in constructing, creating and empowering her team.
She’s additionally invested in quality equipment, including two Werner Pumps Combination Truck Units. “Werner Pumps offers a superior quality product that delivers to my company’s wants and supports my market popularity, if I had an inferior product my firm would not have the ability to ship the superb service, we satisfaction ourselves on,” she says.
“The onsite help I had once I purchased my first automobile was exemplary. Werner Pumps educated my whole team on the automobile and all its components all the means down to the oils required for every utility. They further absolutely licensed my staff as operators of the car however most importantly I had on site help for nearly every week, with the coach spending time with my staff at their work sites, ensuring they use the car accurately and that they’re snug operating the automobile. Sebastian, the MD, has been a fantastic assist and it’s rare to have direct entry to the top of the company with whom you’ll find a way to discuss your challenges and prepare options. Werner Pumps have made my transition into the water administration enterprise much less daunting and their assist, coupled with the company’s experience, has elevated my confidence to take on new challenges. They have actually empowered me as a woman in enterprise, and Lupini Projects is ready to navigate the lengthy run understanding that we have sound enterprise partners in the trade.”
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